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Attention Mister! You, with your aimless praise

This sheer ostentation of your ardent gaze

In no way does it caress my heart’s bays

If time as you say was unending

This pretentious love’s state shall always be unbending

In tides high and low, this act shall remain pending

How helpless is a man when he is instilled with infatuation

His lust is far greater than the bloodlust of a Thracian

His hedonistic ventures always end in ephemeral liberation

My coyness so impeccably vexes you, I must say

My long-preserved virginity is not to be hauled your way

Not today, not tomorrow nor the forthcoming days,

Beauty, as you have defined within me;

My lunar cleavage gleams in your lustful eyes’ sea,

My flowing hair dominate the amorous gaze of thee

It is in this moment that I find utter joy and freedom;

When a woman becomes a man’s Apple of Eden,

Where his desire’s scarlet hue is brighter than Edom

I marvel at your way of dealing with this predicament!

Your resistance is uncanny, your emblazoned craving; diligent

For I must confess, despite my timidity, I am drawn towards your scent

Let us leave it to Mary; the utter innocence of preserving virginity

Let us make sweet love once, twice and beyond infinity

Let us, at last, become one passionate flame that embarks us on perpetuity!

This poem is in response to “To His Coy Mistress” written by the celebrated poet, Andrew Marvell

Published in Daily Times, August 5^th 2018.